Library Futures

What will the school library look like in 5 years? 10 years?

• Going Out of PrintDistrict Administration February 2011 ("School libraries of the future could be light on books and heavy on digital resources")
• Not Your Grandmother's Library! by Lisa Perez, Learning & Leading with Technology, March/April 2011, p.16
• The New Media Center: Design Concepts for the Next-Gen Media Center Internet@Schools March 1, 2011
• "To Be or Not to Be:" School Libraries and the Future of Learning by Ross Todd, School Library Monthly, June 2010 p. 16

Learning Commons

• Flip This Library:School Libraries Need a Revolution by David Loertscher, School Library Journal 11/01/2008
• The Library Morphs Campus Technology (Article discusses what universities are doing on this front.)
• LearningCommons Wiki [[@https://sites.google.com/site/schoollearningcommons/the-virtual-learning-commons> ]]

Virtual Samples

• Mariemont High School Library http://www.mariemontschools.org/hslibrary/index.php
• Creekview High School LibGuides https://sites.google.com/site/theunquietlibrary/
• Newton North High School Library Learning Commons (MA) http://nnhs.newton.k12.ma.us/library/
• Western Reserve Academy John D. Ong Library http://www.wra.net/page.cfm?p=381